Wednesday, June 17, 2009

I've been pretty busy with projects both fiction and otherwise, but I'm hoping to get my new writing site up very soon, hopefully by Dragon*Con. You can see the place holder page by visiting www.jamesmpalmer.com.

I don't use my middle initial in my byline, but jamespalmer.com belongs to a real estate agent in Orlando. Oh well.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Back in the mid nineties there was this great and sadly short lived show that aired on NBC called The Nightmare Cafe. Produced by Wes Craven, it starred Robert Englund (Blackie), Jack Coleman (Frank) and Lindsay Frost (Faye), and combined the feel of an anthology series like the Twilight Zone with a drama's fixed cast.

It only lasted 5 or 6 episodes, thanks to a late Friday night timeslot, but you can watch the first episode on YouTube.

In this download, the poster didn't get the first few seconds of Robert Englund's intro, which is "Touch that remote and you die."

Friday, March 27, 2009

My copies of the reprint of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Warlord of Mars, containing my introduction, arrived yesterday, and they look great. Grab yours here. You can get each book in trade paperback or all three in a single hardcover.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Hey, gang. Check out my White Rocket Books' own --and fellow Airship 27 cohort--Van Allen Plexico's latest. This is a book of trivia compiled from his years of hosting Marvel/DC Jeopardy at Dragon*Con. Grab a copy and stump your friends.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Back in the early years of the Sci Fi Channel, before the horror "Sci Fi Original Movie" was a gleam in Bonnie Hammer's eye, there was a great show called Sci Fi Buzz, hosted by Mike Jerrick. It had great reviews of science fiction movies, books, and television, great interviews with authors, and commentary by Harlan Ellison.

Well now, thanks to YouTube, you can see some of these old segments. Like this one above on the Orlando convention MegaCon.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

I'm pleased as punch to be writing for Airship 27 Productions, about which I'll share more later. For now, here's a video of Airship 27 founder Ron Fortier on his mission to bring back classic pulp. Enjoy.

Monday, February 9, 2009

I'm writing the introduction to a forthcoming edition of Warlord of Mars, part of the classic John Carter of Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It's being published by my friend Van Allen Plexico under his White Rocket Books imprint, and I'm honored to be doing it.

You can learn more about the John Carter books Van is publishing here.

About Me

﻿James Palmer is a freelance writer, columnist, journalist, reviewer and who has written articles,
columns, interviews, reviews and poetry for the defunct SciFiNow, as well as RevolutionSF, the Hugo-nominated webzine Strange Horizons, Singu1arity, the poetry magazine Scifaikuest, and The Internet Review of Science Fiction, Continuum SF, and Blood Blade and Thruster. James also edited Voices for the Cure, a charity anthology to benefit the American Diabetes Association, which features work by Robert J. Sawyer, Mike Resnick and Cory Doctorow.